James w



(No Model.)

J. W. REED. CLOTHES DRIER.

No. 443,920. Patented Deo. 30,1890.

UNITED i STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JAMES lV. REED, OF PITTSBURG, PENNSYLVANIA, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO VILLSON J. ISETT, OF SAME PLACE.

CLOTH ES-DRIER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N o. 443,920, dated December 30, 1890.

Application filed .Tune 12, 1890. Serial No. 355,260. (No model.)

To all whom it 77mg concern.-

Be it known that I, JAMES lV. REED, of Pittsburg, in the county of Allegheny and State of Pennsylvania, have invented a cer- 5 tain new and useful Improvement in Clothes Evaporating or Drying Machines, of which the following is a specification.

This invention has reference to clothesdriers; and it consists in the construction 1o hereinafter set forth, whereby a light and durable drier is provided that will be of simple and efficient form,and present an arrangement whereby the clothes may be conveniently and quickly adj usted thereon and rapi 5 idly dried.

In the accom panying drawings, yforming part of this specification, Figure l is a perspective view of a clothes-drier embodying my iinprovements.

2o View of the same. Figs. 3 and 4 are plan views of my improved drier, taken at the top and in a lower plane.

The bed-plate A is secured to the floor, and is provided centrally upon its upper side with z5 a bearing-box a and surrounding circular track or way b.

The drier proper is composed in part of a base-disk D, having a marginal Vertical flange, and beneath the said disk is bolted a series 3o of radial axles or spindles C C, upon theprojecting ends of which are mounted wheels B li, adapted to run on said track and secure the free rotation of said drier. A pivot a Fig. 2 is a vertical sectionall depends centrally from the underside of a small disk secured to the axles or spindles C 3 5 C, and said pivot bears in said box a. A series of outwardly-inclined vertical bars E E are secured at their lower ends to the diskflange, and are re-enforced by braces K K, radially extending from a ring secured to a 4o central shaft, said braces preventing wires g g from sagging or kinking. The connection of the wires g g with the bars E is secured by clamp-plates H H, so that the entire upper structure forms a dryingcone. From the 45 upper center of the hub-diskD rises the driving-shaft F, carrying a band-pulleyto permit its rotation.

I claim- The combination of the circular base car- 5o rying the central Vertical driving-shat't, a series of vertical bars braced by radial braces extending from the central shaft, a series of radial bars secured on the under side of the base and carrying rollers at their outer ends, 55 together with an independent disk having a depending pivot and secured to theinner ends of the radial bars, horizontally-arranged Wires supported by the vertical bars, and a circular base-track on which the rollers travel, substan- 6o tially as set forth.

JAMES W. REED. Witnesses:

J EssE C. REED, JAMES N. COOKE. 

